Kagi Alerts: notifications/RSS feeds for search results, similar to Google Alerts

TheBOT

Can we beta test the email?

Philippe_Choquette

Google News has this feature where you can generate a feed with a search query or a news topic. For example, if I want to follow news for the "OnePlus" search query in my locale (Canada, English):
Atom: https://news.google.com/atom/search?q=OnePlus&hl=en-CA&gl=CA&ceid=CA%3Aen
RSS: https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=OnePlus&hl=en-CA&gl=CA&ceid=CA%3Aen

Is this also planned for Kagi News? This feature request seems mostly intended for a Google Alerts replacement, which isn't exactly the same. A feed for a given search query would return multiple times more results using Google Alerts in comparison to Google News, which isn't suitable for simply wanting to stay informed on a given topic.

indietech

This can also be used to track those websites which don't offer a RSS feed. Basically, set Kagi to "track" changes and alert the user. I am not sure if this would technically qualify as "web-scraping" but somewhat close. RSS feeds for specific searches (only for paid users) could well be implemented. I am glad someone found this idea interesting before me. So bumping up this thread.

Vlad

Is this enough? Do we need more features?

dps

Vlad Lens based alerts seem appropriate to me as well. But beyond that, I think this looks pretty good.

Philippe_Choquette

Vlad Looks good if it's to replace Google Alerts specifically! I just hoped that it would be possible to only retrieve news articles, but Google has that feature separately through Google News (URL format here).

bitzbyte

Vlad Looks good. The only “extra” it’d be cool to have is using any search operator in the query string.

StealthBadger

Vlad This looks great, with two additions mentioned below. It would be nice if lenses could be applied as well, but this (like the next one) is just a bonus. Also if we could set which one-hour block the search is conducted in, that would be incredible (it would also potentially spread out the workload a bit on your side)!!! (for example, my Google Alerts always come in a little after 3am, I have no choice, but I would love it if I could set Kagi to pull them in sometime after 2am so I could get to bed a little earlier!

heliostatic

Someone recently shared a project they made on HN that's adjacent to this space: https://app.mentions.us/

It pulls from specific feeds and data sources, but does a much more comprehensive job than Google Alerts. Would be interesting to subsume this functionality in Kagi Alerts.

Xytronix

This is a great suggestion. This can be displayed on the kagi dashboard and if opted in be provided as a push notification.

I do propose this feature to expand upon alerts of the following:

Events (Concerts, Festivals)
Releases
Merch
News (Articles), a user might subscribe to their local area and specify which kind of news they want to be alerted of
SEO Ranking

As a privacy and productivity search engine this helps reduce the time Kagi users spend using Social Media.
I do think the best implementation would be calling an API of a third party provider instead of only listening on new search results.

danvpeterson

I would love the ability to do a News search and then subscribe to automatically have any new new news articles that match that search automatically sent to my email

Perform a search
Go to the News tab
Select a “subscribe to updates” or something button that will send me daily/weekly/monthly updates with any new news articles that match my search to keep up to date with a specific topic.

Nawaf

Any updates on Kagi Alerts?

RichardGarrison

i want kagi search alerts too!

breiti

Vlad that looks great! The only thing i would like to configure as well is if it is respecting my personalized search results - mainly if my blocked ones should be included or not. For some alerts i might want to monitor “the whole internet” unfiltered and for some i might not want to see results from sites i blocked. I think “unfiltered” is probably the most easy and likely use-case. But maybe this can be added at some point in time later (if it’s too much effort for version 1).

Thanks so much for this!

xjc

Vlad Instead of an "Exact match only" toggle we could just parse the alert text like a search query, using the Kagi Search Operators. "orion browser" (in quotes) would be the equivalent of "Exact match only" but this allows greater flexibility in alert construction.

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